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What’s the big deal about virginity?
History & The Arts

What’s the big deal about virginity?

...courses and qualifications [Vesta ] Vesta, goddess of hearth (palace garden of Sanssouci, Potsdam) by Francois Gaspard Adam, 1758 Virginity, women’s lack of sexual experience before marriage in particular, has been highly valued in many different cultures. Some feminist critics have argued that the high value placed on the virginity of unmarried women has been used to...
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Do Christmas lights interfere with your wifi signal?
Science, Maths & Technology

Do Christmas lights interfere with your wifi signal?

...courses and qualifications. When Ofcom, the UK’s independent telephony regulator, released a wi-fi checker app for your smart phone, they also warned in its press release that your Christmas tree fairy lights could affect the quality of your wi-fi connection. Before the terrible jokes start and we all declare that this is a fit of “Bah Humbug!” from the telephone...
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Spectre and Meltdown: What do you need to know about the chip security flaws?
Digital & Computing

Spectre and Meltdown: What do you need to know about the chip security flaws?

...course, the problem is this could end up fuelling cyber attacks by also making hackers aware of the flaw. In the past, this debate has forced tech companies to use the law to prevent researchers disclosing security problems. For example, scientists from the University of Birmingham faced a legal injunction from car manufacturer Volkswagen stopping them publishing details...
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Heaven: What might it be like?
History & The Arts

Heaven: What might it be like?

...courses of action which have actual effects. The possible deception involved in each of these examples has inspired ethical debate for centuries. But heaven need not be a place promised after death. While some strive to create the suitable environment for heaven on earth, others try to create the right conditions for an experience of heaven within themselves. Famously the...
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The story of infection
Health, Sports & Psychology

The story of infection

...course, we have yet to find a way to readily treat most viral infections, as shown by the Covid-19 pandemic. Doctors can treat the symptoms but not the virus itself and at the time of writing, there is no vaccine for Covid-19. So in the battle between humanity and nature, nature seems to retain the upper hand. We need to work hard to keep up and continue to develop new...
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Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?
Nature & Environment

Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?

...Pressure your local authorities to improve how they manage waste. 5. Want to learn more? Check out the OpenLearn course Science and Society. Find out more: https://www.unep.org/interactives/beat-plastic-pollution/ https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241516198 The problem with microplastics - YouTube Next steps to tackle plastic waste - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)...
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Flowery meadows and high tech surveying equipment
Nature & Environment

Flowery meadows and high tech surveying equipment

...course subject to occasional flooding indeed they act as flood protection areas for cities such as Oxford, we know these high biodiversity plant communities can withstand a certain amount of winter flooding but what happens when the areas flood in summer when the plants are in full growth like happened in 2007? The 1300 sample locations have to be surveyed over a short...
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Should animals have legal standing?
Society, Politics & Law

Should animals have legal standing?

...course in reality these actions are being taken by human beings acting on behalf of the company. Why does it matter who is a ‘person’? As well as being able to enter into legal arrangements such as contracts, legal personality gives an entity the right to go to court in their own name. In previous centuries, the law upheld inequality by denying legal personhood to...
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